EDGEWARE BUILD YOUR BUSINESS PROGRAM MAKE MONEY, HAVE FUN, CHANGE THE WORLD WHO? For startup and early stage entrepreneurs A development program offered by Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa Shire Council Economic Strategies and Innovations and Edgeware Creative Entrepreneurship (in partnership with Sunshine Coast Institute of TAFE) WHAT? An alternative, fast-tracked startup business education program and network HOW? The Edgeware program is offered to between 10 and 15 participants at a subsidised fee. It is delivered through a set of presentation/workshops over 12 weeks, backed up by online interactions and services, and value added by informal interactions among the participants themselves, and with local entrepreneurs. The idea is commercial and pragmatic. Five accredited and transferable TAFE units are delivered during the program, but its tangible outcomes are workable new enterprises. The idea is also altruistic, and works with an organisational DNA of ethical practice, social responsibility, sustainability, mutuality, a sense of play and a sense of humour. WHEN, WHERE? 26 July 18 October 07, Noosa Regional Art Gallery Schedule Attached 1
EDGEWARE CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP Education Business Education for the Knowledge Economy Incubation Grass Roots Ethical Business Building Interaction Networking Emerging Entrepreneurs PRESENTERS, COACHES, MENTORS, CRITICAL FRIENDS The Edgeware idea stresses authentic, real-world interactions and the actual business of business building. Its presentations are delivered by successful, inspiring local business people who know the ropes, the joys and disappointments, and are willing to share their stories and expertise. These people are drawn from any industry; the critical elements are their knowledge, experience, creativity, savvy and passion. Apart from the (roughly fortnightly) presentations, coaches, mentors and critical friends become involved with Edgeware participants in a variety of ways. This is open-ended and open-source: Edgeware in this sense just provides a platform and exchange, brokering connections and learning opportunities. People get themselves motivated, know who they are, and do what they must. This interpersonal dimension is central to the Edgeware idea, the dimension most acknowledged by participants, the Edgies, in past programs. WHAT DOES IT COST? $495 (incl GST) Participation discounted through a partnership with Sunshine Coast TAFE HOW TO SIGN UP Go to the Edgeware website or by request www.edgeware.com.au For more information on Edgeware contact: Michael Doneman michael@edgeware.com.au Ph. 3369 6897, Mobile 0402 394 166 2
PRESENTERS Michael Doneman has a background in education, community arts and socialcultural animation. With his partner Ludmila he founded and developed CONTACT Inc, Youth Arts Queensland and Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts. He has been privileged to work among Indigenous communities for many years. He is the founder of Edgeware Creative Entrepreneurship, generated through his research as a Senior Research Fellow at QUT, which focused on innovative commercialisation of IP in Queensland s regions. He sits on the International Advisory Board of Denmark s KaosPilots. Dr Ian Dover has been a research manager, sales manager, operations manager, project manager and general manager. He has turned around the performance of a number of companies and now works as a consultant and interim manager. He has developed and implemented management thinking based on the 80/20 principle, and is currently developing the Institute for Simpler Business. He is the founder and principal of Alitek consulting. Ellen Vasiliauskas is the director of d-sipher, a Queensland based research and evaluation consultancy working nationally with all levels of the public sector. She has more than 25 years experience with the design and implementation of a wide range of major government research and evaluation projects requiring contributions from stakeholder, community, client or staff audiences. Ellen has designed large and small scale evaluation studies for the Department of Education, Science and Training, Australian Education International, the Child Support Agency, Ergon Energy, the Department of the Education and the Arts Queensland, Queensland Health and Noosa, Brisbane and Gold Coast City Councils.In 2005, Ellen s work, with her client Noosa Council, was acknowledged by the the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) international award for Evaluation Development for her innovations in introducing evaluation and evidence based practice in Noosa Shire s Community Governance and Planning to 2015 project. Dr Karen Woolley has spent the last 20 years immersed in clinical research and medical writing, in academia and industry, in Australia and North America. After studying at the University of Queensland (BHMS, Education, Honours First Class), she completed her PhD (Medical Science) in Canada. After a Post- Doctoral Fellowship, she worked as a Clinical Research Manager for two international pharmaceutical companies. She has and continues to serve on industry taskforces, liaising with Federal and State Government agencies. Since 2000, she has been the CEO of ProScribe Medical Communications with staff based in Noosa, Sydney, Melbourne and Tokyo. ProScribe s client list includes the world s largest pharmaceutical company and the world s largest biotech. Karen lectures in Medical Writing and Drug Development at two Universities and serves as the President and Chairperson of the Board of the Association of Regulatory and Clinical Scientists. She was recognised as the Sunshine Coast Business Woman of the Year (2003/4) and ProScribe has featured on a national SBS documentary on business leadership. Karen was Queensland s Westpac Business Owner of the Year in the 2004/5 (Telstra Business Women of the Year Awards). 3
Gayne Emblin was educated in Melbourne and holds degrees in Business, Law and a MBA in International Business obtained in the United Kingdom, Singapore and Australia. Gayne is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. He has held several senior management positions within large Australian companies and US based Multinationals. His eighteen years of International business experience included the establishment of operating companies throughout Asia Pacific, China, Japan, Korea, Europe and the Middle East. He has worked with British American Tobacco, Coca Cola International, Mead Corporation, Riverwood International, The Pratt Group of Companies, Smorgan Consolidated Industries and Uncle Tobies. Gayne holds a number of International Patents within Packaging and Packaging Systems. Three years ago he moved with his family to Noosa as CEO/Director of Ritek Building Solutions, a Building Products Manufacturing Company based in Cooroy. The company has experienced growth of over 80% per year for the past three years and is budgeting for similar growth rates over the next two years. He is a progressive manager who believes in the strengths of team work, effective communication, ownership and the hunger of success. Nigel Hall moved to the Sunshine Coast in 2005, finding in the region the criteria for a balanced family life and simultaneously an active entrepreneurial scene. He is the manager of the Business Incubator of the Innovation Centre Sunshine Coast Ltd. Immediately prior to his move to Australia he was Managing Director of Equator Investments Pty Ltd, a VC advisory and seed capital provider in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1998 he founded HighwayOne in Germany and was CEO of the HighwayOne Group, which was was acquired by Telefonica Data of Spain in January 2002. He also co-founded Xpedite Systems GmbH in Germany, a company specialising in document distribution, and prior to that built a worldwide network for Biosym, a US software company. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in European Finance and Administration, a degree in Business Economics from Bremen, Germany and has completed his MBA in International Business Management in Clemson, USA. Christine Ballinger is the Director of the Noosa Regional Gallery. Her creative professional practice spans 25 years and includes solo exhibitions in the art of contemporary paper in Australia, Japan in Europe. She has nine pieces which were acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan and been commissioned by corporate clients such as the Hyatt, Marriott and Orient Express groups. Her consultancy practice includes cultural policy development and cluster dynamics in Queensland and the establishment of Indigenous creative businesses in Queensland and NSW. PROJECT PARTNERS (Noosa Council - Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa Shire Council Economics Strategies and Innovation, Sunshine Coast Institute of TAFE) 4
EDGEWARE IN NOOSA SCHEDULE Date/Time Content Presenter Thursday 26 July, 6.30-9.30pm (Seminar) Introduction to the program, followed by social gettogether. Michael Doneman Saturday 4 Aug, 9am-5pm Small Business Backpack Tools for Business Building and Strategic Decision Making. Ian Dover Seminar Program: Thursday 16 Aug, 6.30- Thursday 30 Aug, 6.30- Thursday 13 Sep, 6.30- Thursday 27 Sep, 6.30- Real stories and experiences communicated effectively by real entrepreneurs and people dealing with them daily. Each seminar also provides real-world tools drawn for effectiveness from lived experience. Key concepts: The nature of entrepreneurship The startup process Marketing Financial planning and management Product and service development Ample time is allowed for interaction among Edgies themselves this peer learning has been one of the most successful element of the BYB approach. BYB Presenters Saturday 6 October, 9am-5pm: Business Plan Presentations. Thursday 18 October - Inspiration Lounge* *The Inspiration Lounge is an event which combines a celebration of the program and its participants, networking and where appropriate the launch of new businesses and new business concepts. Each Lounge takes place in a different venue, with a different look and feel determined by participants themselves. The program also includes Inspiration Salons, which are informal low teas scheduled from time to time -, a cross between information/inspiration sessions and networking events open to the various generations of Edgies as well as the current group. Guests are invited on the fly according to the chemistry and needs of the current group, and may include ex-edgies whose practice exemplifies some aspect of the program and process. The emphasis is on authenticity real communication about real issues. 5